Vocabulary Grade 11 — Set 2: In Context flashcards
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After three straight championships, the club had grown ______: players skipped morning training for spa days and twelve-course dinners, and the owner had the locker room fitted with gold-plated faucets.decadentCharacter & Behavior
Trading training for pampering and showy luxury shows decline through love of pleasure. Jaded would mean bored and unimpressed, but these players chase every new pleasure; sumptuous describes rich things, such as the dinners, not the people indulging in them. -
Gripping the railing where no one could hear her, Grandmother whispered a ______ prayer, her whole heart and unshaken faith in every word, that her son's fishing boat would make it home through the storm.ferventCharacter & Behavior
"Her whole heart and unshaken faith in every word" signals very strong, sincere feeling and belief. Forlorn would make the prayer sad and nearly hopeless, but her faith is unshaken. No one hears the prayer, so poignant, which describes how something moves the people who see or hear it, has no one to move. -
The engineers know exactly why the bridge sways and have three workable fixes, yet the problem continues to ______ them, leaving the team frustrated and worried but not hopeless: every fix would close the city's busiest road for a year.vexFeelings & Attitudes
A hard problem that frustrates and worries people is what vex names. They know the cause and the cures, so mystify (puzzle) fails; "not hopeless" rules out dishearten; and exasperate names only annoyance that uses up patience, while vex also covers the team's worry. -
One flawless lab demonstration was enough to ______ every doubt the class had about whether their young substitute really knew her chemistry; by the bell, the whole class trusted her completely.dispelThinking & Knowing
Making doubts vanish completely is dispel, whose definition names doubt. Debunk proves a claim false, and a doubt is not a claim.
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Rather than shout, Coach Osei chose to ______ her star player quietly after the game, sounding more disappointed than angry that he had skipped the team's charity car wash.reproachSpeaking & Arguing
Quiet criticism full of disappointment is reproach. "Rather than shout" rules out berate, which means scolding angrily and at length. -
After a stern warning from the rangers, the drone pilots finally agreed to ______ from flying over the eagles' nesting cliffs.desistActions & Effort
Stopping an action when ordered to is desist, and it takes "from." Forgo means doing without something you want and doesn't take "from." -
Each summer the club's members drove from one county fair to the next to ______ their theory that a giant ape roamed the local hills, handing a map of "sightings" to anyone who would take one.propagateChange & Growth
Spreading a belief from place to place so more people take it up is propagate. Profess would only mean declaring the belief themselves, and perpetuate keeps something, usually harmful, going for a long time rather than spreading it.
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In the novel, the old surgeon is a ______ of his profession, so towering in importance that young doctors cross oceans just to watch him operate.colossusSize & Amount
A person of towering importance in a field is a colossus. Behemoth names an enormous, powerful thing, especially a company, not a great individual, and a stalwart is loyal and reliable rather than towering. -
At the science fair, Joel's ______ invention, a pair of roller skates powered by leaf blowers, drew a crowd of astonished onlookers, not one of them laughing.outlandishQuality & Judgment
A strange, unheard-of contraption is outlandish. Ludicrous would need it to be laughably foolish, and the crowd is astonished, not laughing. -
By constantly bragging about her test scores, Bella began to ______ the very friends who had once cheered her on; they never seemed annoyed, but soon they stopped taking her side or saving her a seat.alienateSociety & Power
Her bragging turned her friends against her, which is alienate. Irk and exasperate both mean annoying people, and these friends never seem annoyed; ostracize would mean Bella shutting them out on purpose, but she is the one losing them.
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